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Showing posts with label partition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partition. Show all posts

Monday, December 19, 2011

The Weaire-Phelan foam is a counterexample to Kelvin's conjecture
about the best partition of space into equal-volume cells.
By John M. Sullivan.
Posted by sylvier at 9:13 PM No comments:
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Pictures of Math

Math can be incredibly beautiful. Often this beauty is only accessible to those who study math at an advanced level; images such as these have a universal aesthetic.

I started this blog hoping to share some of the more colorful parts of mathematics with those who may have dismissed math as the result of a bad algebra or calculus class. Meanwhile, for the mathematically minded, I hope these images inspire you to learn new things.

With every image posted, there are links so that you can read more about the mathematics behind the image. I encourage you to do so as sometimes, the math involved is just as beautiful, if not more so.
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